Joy Pierson is a nutritional consultant whose quest is to change people’s awareness of health and well-being, and the effect of our choices on the planet and future generations, by introducing them to delicious, nutritious, farm-fresh, plant-based food. She has written extensively about food and nutrition and leads cooking classes, workshops and courses. Joy and her husband, Bart Potenza, are founders of the Candle restaurants in New York and have authored three cookbooks: The Candle Cafe Cookbook, Candle 79 Cookbook and Vegan Holiday Cooking from Candle Cafe. Joy has appeared on The Today Show, Good Day New York, CBS News This Morning, The Food Network’s TV Food Diners and has been a radio guest on The Howard Stern Show and Walden’s Pond on NPR. candlecafe.nyc